538: Witiges, King of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome, retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of victorious Byzantine General Belisarius
1455: First record of Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before
1642: Abel Tasman is the 1st European to sight New Zealand, viewing the north-west coast of the South Island
1918: Fearing foreign invasion Vladimir Lenin shifts revolutionary Russia’s capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow
1930: Mahatma Gandhi begins his famous 200 mile (300km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax
1994: The Church of England ordains its first ever 33 female priests
Source: Onthisday.com
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